This is a straight out C&P from the ‘Free Wireless Auckland‘ blog. I’m happy for comments as to the morality (for want of a better term) of replicating blog postings between different blog sites, but I want to retain this link and figure this is a good place from which to do that.
Thanks to Simon who linked this clip in his friendfeed. It’s part 4 of a 5 part series of the closing keynote of Webdirections South 2007 so, while it’s not new news – it’s a good clip worth the watch.
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EDIT: Something went VERY weird with my links here (good for Silkcharm though ) I’ll have to find the articles and re-edit – sorry! -Rob)

Back Story: Sarah Lacy is a writer for BusinessWeek who conducted an interview at South by Southwest (SXSW). She didn’t do a good job, in fact, she did a really bad job and there are a number of dissections of her interview (including this very good one) and the flood of Twitters which occurred during and after the interview. There is some video, some good quality – but incomplete and some bad quality.

And now you’re up to speed… on with the post.

I feel almost sorry for Ms Lacy, indeed I would feel sorry for her if (from the video) she had actually appeared to care about what her interviewee was saying (watch for the body language and lack of eye contact). She got a hard time from the crowd and ended up losing it, but her major failing has been that she still hasn’t been able to admit that she handled things badly and went so far as to tweet back to the Twittering community from her account “seriously screw all you guys. I did my best to ask a range of things” along with a few other tweets where she appears to think the interview was a success and what a rough day she’s had, but how she will soldier on.

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Once again I find myself living vicariously through the gadget blogs as their writers get to go to the gadget shows which I’d like to attend. This morning Engadget is carrying a couple of stories on the next EEE subnotebook and it’s new 9″ version. The official press release is set for tomorrow (04 March), but for now we know that the 9″ display won’t affect battery life too much (still around 2.5 – 3hrs), the 9″ version is noticeably larger that the 7″ original (which is unfortunate, given the significant bezel size on the 7″) and pricing is expected to be around €399 for the 12GB version

Engadget: Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC

Engadget: 7-inch Eee PC vs 9-inch Eee PC — ready, fight!

I think I’ll wait for v3 before I get my next EEE however as there’s not yet enough change in spec to make the upgrade worthwhile.